Tennessee · Private foundation
The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $264k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $39,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $264k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $288k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $300k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $300k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $276k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $265k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $263k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $225k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Samaritan Ministries Inc | $264,000 | 9 | 2% |
| St Andrew's-Sewanee School | $204,000 | 9 | 1% |
| University of the South | $183,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Born This Way Foundation | $158,000 | 5 | 1% |
| South Cumberland Community Fund | $130,000 | 8 | 6% |
| St Stephen's and St Agnes School Foundation | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $90,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Sewanee Parent Organization | $75,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $54,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Oz Arts Inc | $54,250 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($595k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbo · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc with peer funders
About The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc
- How much does The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc give?
- The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $264,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (13%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Good Samaritan Ministries Inc ($264k), St Andrew's-Sewanee School ($204k), University of the South ($183k).
- Does The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc based?
- The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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